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A statue of Professor Henry. — A few weeks ago (December 10, 1S70) 

 the Hon. Mr. Booth introduced in the Semite the following bill provid- 

 ing for a statue of Professor Henry in the grounds of the Smithsonian 

 Institution : 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United. 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty thou- 

 sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appro- 

 priated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not 

 otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting a statue of Joseph 

 Henry on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Sec. 2. The money herein appropriated shall be expended under the 

 direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.* 



APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION OF REGENTS. 



By the terms of the act of Congress, the three members of the Board 

 of Kegel its selected by the Speaker of the House to act in that capacity 

 are appointed for a single Congress, or for two years; their term of 

 service expiring on the fourth Wednesday of December, on which day, 

 according to law, the appointment of new members is to be made. 



These appointments were made by the Speaker on the 4th of April, 

 1879, by renewing the terms of service of lion. Hiester Clymer, of Penn- 

 sylvania, and Hon. J. A. Garfield, of Ohio, and by appointing Hon. Joseph 

 E. Johnston, of Virginia, in the place of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, 

 of Georgia. It is for the Board of Begents to say whether this apparent 

 informality will in any way vitiate the appointments, and render it desi- 

 rable that they be renewed at the present session. 



The vacancy in the Senatorial Regents, caused by the expiration of the 

 term of Hon. A. A. Sargent, was filled by the appointment, by the Presi- 

 dent of the Senate, on the 21st of March, of Hon. Newton Booth, of Cali- 

 fornia. 



The terms of four of the six citizens at large, namely, of Dr. John 

 Maclean, of Princeton, Hon. Peter Parker, of Washington, Prof. Henry 

 Coppee, of Pennsylvania, and Prof. Asa Gray, of Cambridge, having 

 also expired, a joint resolution reappointing them, introduced in the 

 Senate by Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, was passed, and approved by the 

 President on the 17th of December. 



* It is gratifying to lie. able to state here that since the date of the above, a modifica- 

 tion of this bill (introduced into the Senate by the Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, 

 and into the ! louse of Representatives by the Hon. Hiester Clymer, of Pennsylvania) 

 passed Congress unanimously and was signed by the President on the lstof June, 1880. 

 The act is entitled "An Act for the erection of a bronze statue of Joseph Henry, late 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution," and is in the following terms: "Be it 

 enacted, <)'c, That the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution be, and are hereby 

 authorized to contract with W. W. Story, sculptor, for a statue in bronze of Joseph 

 Henry, late Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be erected upon the grounds 

 of the said Institution; and for this purpose, and for the entire expense of the founda- 

 tion and pedestal of the monument, the sum of $15,000 is hereby appropriated out of 

 any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated." 



